Go Ned!

ROOTZ

I believe Joe’s (and Ned’s) campaign finance reports should be available any minute now (the 2nd Quarterly)

but here is Joes April quarterly http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-b.....6020192996
and his pre-convention http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-b.....6020312638

I wish I could go Jane, but I seem to have worked my way into Ohio (I was in NYC from 1984-end of 2005, and New Haven before that). Keep up the good fight!

If Ned keeps doing what he’s doing, and Joe keeps doing what he’s doing, we just might pull this off. But win or not, this is going to have long-term repercussions.

Jane, What kinds of skills does Tagaris need?

Jane,

scrolling back through the comments on the Daily Ned thread, I couldn’t find an answer from you on the ? - Is there pressure building in the MSM for another Lieberman vs. Lamont debate?

From previous thread:
Glad we had that earmark discussion. I think that immanetize educated some of us a little. I’m sorry that I got Jane mad, but I’m an incredibly annoying person, and that can happen. In any event, I thought the discussion was useful. FDL is the best as far as people actually reading and responding to the comments. Thanks, Jane and friends.
peace,
jim

Jane, how late will this be going Thursday? It’s four hours away for me, so I’m thinking I’ll try and make it late.

It’s also my birthday :)

Ditching your family to meet your FDL host/fellow pirates to try and depose King Joe - PRICELESS

OT: via truthout…very cool…RF Kennedy Jr. files Qui Tam suit against Diebold

Blowing the Whistle on Diebold
By John Ireland
In These Times

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/071706P.shtml

Go Ned, Go CT Bloggers, Go FDL!

I am so rooting for Holy Joe’s downfall!

Jane - “An update on our Thursday night FDL meet-up at the Owenego Inn in Branford (pictured above).”

Four generations of my maternal grandfather’s ancestors were born in Branford; they lived there from about 1675 through at least 1750.

Jane, it’s exciting having you here. I’ll just consider you a fellow local blogger from here on out.

And I hope to see everyone at the party Thursday. I hope everybody gets their picture taken with the kiss float, and uploads them to flickr tagged “kissfloat” or something–that’d be one hell of a photostream.

scarecrow — probably just some internet familiarity and a willingness to work hard for long hours and no money.

Off the top of my head ;)

MsAnna

Ever since the Jason Leapold fiasco, I have been leery of what I read on TruthOut, but if this is true, it should be all over AirAmerica tomorrow.

Interesting legal strategy.

Usually, if the gov’t declines to prosecute the case for you, it means they think itis a weak case. Oddly, in thsi instance, it might signal the opposite

Some lemonade with pups under that shade tree….Rootz and Ned Bliss.

ET — Lieberman/Lamont debate pressure — Yes there is pressure, but nobody thinks Whinnerman has the stones to do it. He won’t even announce where he’s appearing for fear of having CTKeith and DeanFan84 show up.

And oh, that Kiss float…

Jane
You are doing an amazing job of keeping Ned in the eye of the MSM. I think the fact that you went to Conn and are live blogging the campaign has really focused them on this race.

looseheadprop: understand about Leopold. Mostly truthout links to others…Leopold is one of the few they have that does original stuff.

That article is from “in these times”
link below:

http://www.inthesetimes.com/si.....icle/2750/

MsAnnaNOLA, thanks for the link - hope it’s true! I remember hearing rumors a few months back that this was coming down the pike.

Leslie in CA:

Yeah it is exciting to see patriots like the Wilsons and RFK Jr. suing on behalf of everyday citizens and trying to hold the government to account. It is truly inspiring.

MsAnna

Cute how the article wraps him up in the power of the AG reminding people that he is his father’s son.

I wonder if he hoping to really follow in daddy’s footsteps the next time we have a Dem in the WH?

So, where in Conn is Branford?

I thought I knew my way around that state, but I guess not. The pix jane posted has water and a dock, is that the Sound?

What big Conn. city is Branford near?

By the way - lhp (or whoever), what does “qui tam” mean? I assume qui means who, as in qui bono, but what’s tam?

http://maps.yahoo.com/maps.py?.....ranford,CT

Boy the chance of paying homage to Kiss Float may be too hard to resist.

lhp — just east of New Haven, off I95.

looseheadprop — Branford is right near New Haven. Just a few minutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qui_tam

Millineryman 25 — yep, and I think we’ll have a few of the Lamont folk there too. It should be quite the evening.

That Kiss float is just so good, isn’t it? I stood there for 4 hours in the hot sun on Saturday going weak kneed from laughing as CTKeith drove it slowly up and down the street, back and forth. It’s just genius.

Spazeboy will be there on the 20th. I think we may have a hot story to videotape tomorrow, cross your fingers.

Spazeboy — just sent you an email.

It’s such a cool float Jane. I do love it. And 4 hours travelling time in the scheme of a lifetime isn’t so much really.

Never have I voted single issue. But in Senator Clinton’s case I must make an exception. Based on her support for the Bush/Israeli Mideast inferno, I will not vote for her in ‘08. If this thing intensifies to world war proportions, the fact that I support Clinton’s position on other issues becomes moot. It’s sort of like the old saying, ‘if one doesn’t have their health, then they have nothing’. Human-kind simply will not survive a nuclear conflagration. Regardless of the outcome of this latest aggression instigated by America and it’s stooge, with guys like Lieberman, Clinton and Biden at the throttle, things will only get worse. If the people of Connecticut throw out Lieberman, it will be a major crack in the war mongers armour. Who would have thought last year that, Ned Lamont and the folks in Connecticut may just “hold the whole wide world in their hands”. Time is ebbing quickly.

Jane @ 29
Yesterday it was so hot that you thought it was Saturday. :)

Qui Tam is Latin for “who as well”

It is brought by a plaintiff who sues on behalf of himself as well as the government

“A ceasefire is a very specific term,” the official said. It implies some sort of temporary status.

“You want to get to a place where you actually have a cessation of violence not only in the immediate term, but the longer term. Ceasefire implies a state of suspended hostilities which is not what you want,” the official said.

GENUIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe not, cause the logic is well, different -

Patient - “Doctor, are you going to treat the tumor?”
Doctor - “Nah, were going to let it grow till it gets really big and kills you, THEN we’ll remove it. Otherwise, the tumor wouldn’t have a chance to grow and kill you, and life is only a temporary situation so we would rather see you die cause death is a permanent situation, and that we don’t like half measures.”
Patient - “Makes sense to me.”

What is scary is that they - i.e. TEAM LOSER - think that sounds like a reasonable, logical argument that they can sell to the American people, let alone the world.*

Will the CM call them on it? Some statements/positions/strategeries are so deserving of ridicule you think the CM couldn’t fuck it up, would have to call them on it, rather than do what they always do - parse through it and comment as IF it were logical or even sane - I but someone will even claim it is statesmenlike and preznidential - even Wilsonian if not Buchananian.

I may half joke about mastur bullshitters, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think they are dangerous.

I did a medicaide fraud investigation on behalf of a county government a little while back and brought the case as a qui tam with the county government as the plaintiff, although in these kinds of cases the plaintiff is called the relator because the claim “relates back”.

This is a really obscure area of law, most lawyers have never heard of it, much less used it. Kinda like FISA. Unless you had a reason to know, you wouldn’t know.

This would be a fun song to blare out of the loudspeakers of the Kiss Truck…

When We Kiss Lyrics

It was late one night and we had a fight
And it seemed like nothing was going right
Then you turned around and you walked right out the door
Now it’s not the first time, it’s not the last
I know all about your checkered past
And we’ve played this game one thousand times before

[Chorus]
Do you remember the night I can see it so clear
All the sweet little things that you sang in my ear
There were promises made but I think you forgot what you said
There’s a real fine line between love and hate
And I’m not the type to just sit and wait
I’ve made up my mind I can’t wait for you anymore:

But when we kiss, it feels like this
And when we touch, it means so much

So many days go by and I still want you so
If it was up to me I’d never let you go
You’re the only true love in my life and I want you to know
All this passion and pain I think I’m goin’ insane
We’ve got nothing to lose and so much to gain
If you love me today, who’s to say
You might leave me again

Ack! I live in NYC and cannot make it out to New Haven after work on a Thursday!

Just to throw this out there - is there a possibility of a weekend FDL get-together in CT on a Saturday or Sunday on one of the upcoming few pre-election weekends.

Maybe a brunch, with those who are interested proceeding afterwards from there to go forth and do door-knocking, etc. for the Lamont campaign.

Just a thought.

The * to the above

* I don’t believe TEAM LOSER actually thinks it is a logical position, only that they think it is logical and they can at least try to sell it with a straight face.

wxyz - keep the 29th free. More to follow soon.

Buchananesque, but whose counting.

wxyz 38 — that’s a great idea. We may have an event on the morning/afternoon of Saturday the 29th and if that’s the case a brunch would be great.

Owenego Inn is picture perfect and 7pm on a summer night can’t get better. Looks out over LI Sound and the beautiful Branford Coastline. Spent many lovely times there and you will all love it.

Ned’s made the really big time. And surprisingly, I did not find this on Huffpo.

Famous names on Lamont’s donor list
Streisand, Newman & Soros support Leiberman’s senatorial opponent

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13905830/

Bravo, RFK,Jr. May the lawsuits on behalf of the people continue to be filed. May the sleeping populace waken and drive forth from our shores the evil-doers that reign. May we regain our country in deed as in word. Amen.

Anyone know where Baiting Hollow is in relation to Branford? I know its on the Long Island side overlooking Connecticut…and, is there a ferry or something across to Conn?

Thanks, *ilson and lhp, for the info.

Jane and Urban Pirate,

Thanks! Unfortunately I will be in another area of the country that weekend.

But regardless of whether I can meet up with fellow FDL’ers, I will still try to get out to CT again over the upcoming weekend to do more door knocking, etc. for Lamont.

I was in Bridgeport yesterday and it was really fun.

I highly recommend door knocking or phone banking to anyone who is able to get involved.

You will carry the good karma from the experience for years to come.

ccmask - There are two ferries connecting CT and LI.

Bridgeport - Port Jeff

www.bridgeportferry.com

Orient Point - New London

www.longislandferry.com

www.portjeffferry.com is the correct link

Joe Wilson on KO tonight…

Baiting Hollow to Branford http://maps.yahoo.com/dd_resul.....sz=Baiting Hollow , NY&country=us&tcsz=Branford, CT&tcountry=us&terr=3005

EPU 35

I wanted to throw something at Condi yesterday as she blabbed on during the Sunday shows yesterday.

She basically said that we don’t support a cease fire because it wouldn’t get at the root cause of the problem. “We’d be right back here in three weeks, Tim.”

I daresay that a ceasefire would get at the root cause of the deaths of the Lebanenese and Israeli citizens who will lose their lives in the next three weeks.

They all act like f***ing monarchs.

And it seems like the worse things get the broader Junior’s grin gets.

NRA boner alert.

Shipping shit over here from over there so that we can fight ourselves over here.

Weapons from Iraq finding their way into the US.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20.....imeweapons

-GSD

lhp,
Way to go, it’s desperately needed imo. Whatever oversight, quality control, Medicaid had, has been gutted. Bad physicians just use it as their own private ATM. Medicaid fraud is one of the few things that Trial lawyers agree with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce about, it hurts everyone except the dishonest providers. IMO “False Claims” is a great law and the taxpayers need more attorneys to use it. I am hoping more States will adopt a state version.

Wow Urban Pirate, I never knew that! My family has a cottage overlooking the Sound up on a cliff somewhere. I’ve never been to it…

Owenego Inn is picture perfect and 7pm on a summer night can’t get better. Looks out over LI Sound and the beautiful Branford Coastline. Spent many lovely times there and you will all love it.

Especially considering the temps will have dropped to the 80’s by Thursday. Yeesh, it’s freakin’ hot here!

But, then again, that appears to be the case everywhere in the U.S.

Brian Williams-Big, Beautiful, and Dumb as a box of rocks…

GSD, am I to laugh or cry?

wtf … this “paroxism”??? sp folks? Brian W waxing paroxic

Jane - Is there going to be a special room or reservation for the group and if so under what name? Or are we just storming the bar? ;)

Also pdf in your box.

I just don’t understand the current preoccupation with Lieberman. Much print is being spent on someone that, in the scheme of things, is a relatively small fish. Crimes being committed by the big fish are now often overlooked thanks to this new obsession. And if you really want expose the enemy within then Reid should easily top the list. In fact there are at least a dozen Democratic Senators and Congressmen who are further right than Lieberman.

I guess it must be symbolic or something, whipping up this fervor…. Not very rational if you ask me, energy would be better spent on the real bad guys.

John Casper
You make me blush. Thank you.

ACtually, NYC recently adopted it’s own versio of qui tam and Elliot Spitzer has been advocating for a NYS version forever.

Medicaide fraud in NYS is a particularly bad problem because the computer system they use to track paayments can give you a print out for –wait for it– six months or more after the payment has been made.

Plus NYS is one of the few states that make the counties pay part of the cost, and do all the admin work, though they have no say in granting/denying claims.

Wow a weekend event also?

By that point I’ll be an old pro at getting from NJ to CT.

So, is exit polling still legal? That, I think, is the only way to make sure we don’t get Diebolded.

Beautiful? Brian Williams?

You’re kidding, right?

hi
cupholder.

You must be new here. I haven’t seen ya around these parts before.

You may want to invest a few minutes going through the archived threads. T’will explain the “obsession” with ole Rape Gurney Joe

Has anyone seen any projected numbers from the campaigns yet? I’m getting called every night by someone seeking my support in the primary.

SharonW @ #57,

Not hot here. In the low 50s, raining. Everything I want to do is getting rained out. At least I don’t have to water the garden. I’m supposed to go on a halibut charter on Thursday in lower Cook Inlet, and it’s looking like a gale warning.

Wish I could be at the Onowego Inn instead. Someday I’ll go to CT. My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather (Nicholas Munger) arrived there, at East Guildford, in 1636, or around then……….

Someone needs to throw Gannon in the mix and turn it into a three-way…

Oft - Oh jeebus, I just saw the film of Bush with the open mic. What a vile, uncouth buffoon he is. He embarasses us all.

Branford is just east Of New Haven on the Sound.

The Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. story is on HuffPo too.

looseheadprop:

No need to skim the archives, I’m well aware of the complaints against Lieberman.

Cupholder, you might want to read a bit of what’s written here and elsewhere (It’s seems like everywhere, actually) regarding why Joe must go. The reasons might surprise you. Then again you could be well aware, and simply be a concern troll. Either way, read up, and then make your own decisions.

Never trust a man who makes policy statements with food in his mouth.

cupholder,
lhp, asked you nicely.

Arianna on Bush and Blair’s Less Than Excellent Conversation.

Not hot here. In the low 50s, raining. Everything I want to do is getting rained out. At least I don’t have to water the garden. I’m supposed to go on a halibut charter on Thursday in lower Cook Inlet, and it’s looking like a gale warning.

Ed, where the hell ARE you? The last national weather map I saw showed some of the upper mid-west states with lows of 80’s as the cool spots.

Lotus
Brian Williams isn’t BAD looking. He just looks….. homogenized

ET is an Alaskan, SharonW.

cool Cook Inlet is in Alaska http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Inlet

Kevin at #68, I haven’t seen any, but on Thursday the new Quinnipiac Poll should be out. Hopefully, we’ll have something big to celebrate on Thursday night. :)

Bu-land, lhp 80, entirely bu-land. And he can’t look at the camera straight-on to save him. Feh.

Ed

102 today on Long Island. You know the place with the cool breezes. Can we come to visit you?

Brian Williams is the Ken Doll of broadcast journalism.

And, sadly, does appear to be as dumb as a sack of hair.

Which may be the secret to his stay-tight coiffure…

Alaska! ROTFL! No wonder. D’oh!

Lotus,

The dumb as rocks part, so true.

And he uses more hairspray in a day, than I use in a year

Brian Williams. Fan of Rush Limp-balls. ‘Nuff said.

-GSD

its 4:30am in Baghdad and its still 85ºF but its dry heat !

cupholder,
“Not very rational if you ask me, energy would be better spent on the real bad guys.”
That is one of the more inadequate comments I have read at FDL in some time. Whinermann does a lot more damage than the neocons, because Whinerman pretends to be an alternative and he’s coming from a traditional deep blue state. He and Schumur do so much damage, because they drag all the other liberals from less blue states closer to the WH. If you think of some area where he is an “alternative” to the Bush WH, please by all means, educate me.

NOT TO MENTION that BW doesn’t speak but HONKS his GE-approved “news.”

cupholder — how long have you worked for NARAL?

Their favorite tactic to divert attention from their inexplicable endorsement of Lieberman is to ask why people aren’t complaining about Harry Reid.

Because Harry Reid isn’t running for re-election in a blue state against a pro-choice opponent, you nitwit. Now go to the bathroom and purge your cocktail weenies, I’m sure there will be many more where those came from.

“Whinermann does a lot more damage than the neocons”

OK, you’re right. What was I thinking? Definitely invest much time and effort into this Lieberman affair. It’s really the key issue of the day.

Thanks to everyone wrt the ferry. Now to figure out how to get some vacation days.

“cupholder — how long have you worked for NARAL?”

Poison the well much?

Ye…eeessss, *ilson?

On Olberman now, Libby might be looking to plea!

Cupholder,

There are many conservative Dems that are far too conservative for my taste.

There is only one Dem that is the darling of Pat Robertson, Ann Coulter, Rush Lim-balls, and a weekly guest on Sean Hannity.

Only one Dem that is always held up as an example to the rest.

Only one Dem that gave Bush a soul kiss in public.

Right wing Ho-Joe.

-GSD

Jane,
My love is with you always. Just back from visiting family and have no cash for nothin’. And they paid for most of my bill; buying lottery tickets by the barrel. Dreaming don’t cost much…but my dream’s on Ned and you.

Ditto the BW- Ken doll in yellow tie.

EPU - So the goal is to just shoot and bomb the crap out of everything until no one’s left to do anything, THEN declare a ceasefire.

Post- mortem has always been the preferred stage for tumor removal.

“We’d like everybody to know precisely what happened. We’d like to know what precisely happened.”
You Go Joe Wilson!

who on KO is saying Libby might plead ? based on what info?

cupholder:

I would normally agree with you, but in the case of defeating Lieberman, it’s just like beating a Republican. He’s the New England version of Zell Miller.

The added benefit of a Lamont win is that it would be a wake up call to the Democratic Party leadership about the kinds of candidates they are supporting.

It’s also a prequel to the Prez. contest in 2008 wrt the Iraq war.

But in the final analysis, it’s up to the people of CT who they want to represent them in the Senate.

I sent the same amount of money to Lamont that I sent to Jim Webb in Virginia. The incumbents have such an advantage from the get go. Why not give the challenger a little outside help?

Cupholder,

We have the ability to multi-task here. We can talk about Joe, Ned, the war in Iraq, Aghanistan, Israel and Lebanon, Deadeye Dick Cheney, Bush, Condi, Pat Fitz, Rover, Scooty Libby, the G8 summit, Venezuela, local and state elections and still not chew buttered buns in public with our mouths open.

-GSD

ok, i don’t want to throw cold water on the party here, but what’s being done to get out the vote???

i’m way over here on the left coast and can’t help, but it seems to me that the only, only way ned has a chance of winning is for old fashioned feets on the pavement knockin’ on the doors talking with human beings face to face kind of action.

anything at all going on? or are we just blogging?

just want to know the specifics so i can sleep peacefully at nights.

Sharon W

Am still at office. No TV.

Please give details on KO libby plea story

skippy 106 - amen

…and your little dog, too 53
Yes, I thought the same thing. It’s as if she was thinking, “Why waste my time putting out fires all day long?” I know the feeling, Condi, but dear, lives are being lost. It’s more important than anything else you got going on. Even shoe-shopping or your workout.

skippy — we didnt just fall off the falafel truck here! skip around the archives here and read some of the Daily Ned posts — yes, folk have been going door2door

Libby

plea

details???

I’m dyin’ here!!

Olberman hasn’t gotten to it yet, he’s interviewing Wilson at the moment.

Wilson called the WH’s intelligence on Niger CRAP!

Is there usually this much frou-frou on Olbermann?

btw GSD — nice snapback! particularly the buttered roll snark…

Compliments on the falafel truck too, *ilson.

Qest que se “Frou Frou?”

Mary - Basically. Anything else would be downright unsporting to death.

and her little dog too - Now that I’ve discovered Flickr, I can share my Condi art with the world along with my Joe art.

http://static.flickr.com/75/19.....51ac_o.gif

PS - Jane, feel free to use this one too, if you want.

GSD
I actually fed my cat while reading at the same time. She licked it off the keyboard. Great cat.

Frou-frou = gossamer nothings, e.g. Brad Pitt.

froufrou also frou-frou ( P ) Pronunciation Key (frfr)
n.
Fussy or showy dress or ornamentation.
A rustling sound, as of silk.

Ed*ard Teller - my great, great, great, great………… arrived in Boston in June of 1637 and moved on to the New Haven area shortly thereafter. Wonder if the Mungers knew the Todds. Not super far away.

Skippy — you’re talking about primary day GOTV, right?

Oh, Keith likes to throw in frou-frou mixed with deeper stuff. It’s probably a good thing really. Brings different viewers to his show. It’s a political show that even my 18-year old will watch. And some of the stuff he shows is pretty funny.

I sure hope he says more about the Libby thing and it wasn’t just limited to. “And we hear of the possibility of a Libby plea deal.”

Did KO get to the Libby plea part yet?

Where is halibut in the midwest?

skippy — the Lamont folks could use all the help anyone can offer. Some of us went down there yesterday, assigned to help the coordinator in a little town called Willimantic, just north of Hartford. We knocked on doors, planted lawn signs, and made calls using their Dem voter lists. We were just five volunteers from the Boston area, there for an afternon, and that’s where we were assigned. We could have used more just there, and there are dozens of such little towns. I don’t know how many others were available and assigned elsewhere. Anyone in the NE region who has time should call in and offer to help.

in the words of that philosopher Richard M. Sherman “A little bit of sugar makes the medicine go down…” thus Keith garnishes his very serious show with eyecandy like Brad Pitt

“Poison the well much”
That’s what I call ignoring the Powell Doctrine and everyone who knew anything about the ME and spending $267,000,000 to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan.

Thank you Sharon. So I have to bite my nails through all the dump footage of japanese teenage girls with porkchops strpped to their heads?

Arrrgggh